Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any imme….

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable..

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy..

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butter….

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss..

An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year arc….

Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the unnuanced s….

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and….

There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous breakdow….

It turns out that we're actually capable of something other than neoliberalism and actually we're really capable of enjoying ourselves more than we d….

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenar….

Sure, you can say nuclear power is somewhat less carbon-intensive than burning fossil fuels for energy; beating your children to death with a club wi….

What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental an….

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural..

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope..

I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk..

Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies….

People are actually very good at being communists in the sense that they instantly abandon capitalism, that they love these relationships of mutual a….

For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that litera….

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a l….

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and wher….